I received this question from my friend Paul recently: Scott, My Spam Filter subscription for my earthlink.net email address and Outlook Express recently expired. Spam Filters could be a possible topic for your Blog and it would give me your present recommendation for a good spam filter. I would prefer an inexpensive, [...] Read more »
Recently I helped out one of my clients with an Outlook problem. Bob uses Microsoft Outlook to read email from his Gmail account (I use the same procedure myself). Suddenly, Bob found that he was able to receive email in Outlook, but he could not longer send email. He would get [...] Read more »
This is a topic about which I have written before. But it bears repeating. Your internet provider sells you a service – connecting you to the internet. Along with that service comes other things. One of those things is an email account. You should not use this email account. I repeat: don’t use the [...] Read more »
As you probably already know, I use Gmail as my email service exclusively. I have several different Gmail accounts that I use for different purposes. There are lots of advantages to the Gmail service, compared to other services such as Hotmail or Yahoo. Gmail just got better! Now, if you go to [...] Read more »
One of the most common scams on the internet now is phishing. Phishing is the act of trying to obtain private information (such a password, credit card number, date of birth, social security number) while pretending to be a reputable entity. This is often seen now in spam emails that come in, supposedly [...] Read more »
Have you ever received an email and thought, “Wow, I don’t really want to deal with that now. I wish that email would just show up tomorrow instead.” Sure, you could just leave it in your inbox, but by the time you want to process it, it might be higher up in [...] Read more »
Most computer users will agree – we all hate spam. It’s the scourge of the internet. For an individual, it’s an annoyance. For a business, it is an expense. Some businesses have gone to great measures to prevent spam – and some have gone too far. I ran into [...] Read more »
I recently got an email from someone who apparently had just changed their internet provider to PeoplePC. As an aside, if this person had asked my advice (which he/she didn’t), I would have advised them to choose a different service. My observations from a few customers that use PeoplePC have led me [...] Read more »
Okay, you have heard me rant about Yahoo, and also about forwarding emails. I’m not going to beat those dead horses again. Anyone that keeps using Yahoo, and keeps forwarding all those emails, is going to do it regardless of what I say anyway. What I want to mention today is that [...] Read more »
And by “best” I really mean the ones with the highest “Nonsense Factor”. These are all taken from the archives of Snopes. The sad thing is, they are all still in circulation and there are still people every day that read them, believe them, and then forward them. 1. The US Government [...] Read more »
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